Directionally impaired.

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I am ADHD.

I am so directionally impaired and spatially challenged, it is driving me crazy. Today I got lost just going a few blocks from my house. I decided to go a different way and just got confused. It was so sad. I left my GPS in another car. I also can't park straight, write on an envelope straight. I sometimes bump into walls.

Sometimes I laugh at myself and other times it produces so much anxiety in me I become wiped out!

Anyone else experience this? My PDD-NOS nonverbally, spatially gifted five year old tells me where to go LOL. That is his gift. Please someone tell me you can relate!!

I go crazy giving directions....I have a hard time telling left from right...But I know my way around areas I am familiar with.
My ADDish+ dad has a really hard time with directions, so that I automatically know to navigate when I am in the car with him even on really familiar routes he is very very prone to turning the wrong way..
I have gotten rediculously lost just walking around the block in unfamiliar areas..

I always get confused in office buildings because everything looks the same and I don't have an instinct for direction. I asked my brother once if he could tell where North was if he was in an unfamiliar place on an cloudy day(can't see sun) and he said he could.

err.. I hope you're REALLY careful when driving..

I'm the same way.. partly because I TOTALLY screwed up the driving test.. and they gave me a license anyways! (Well, I guess the driving testers probably can tell the difference between someone who is driving their best because it's the test, and people who are driving their worst for the same reason.. I fell into the second category. But seriously, I was stopped in front of a moving trolley, and then they gave me a license! WTF?!)

But I can never remember how to get anywhere until I've already driven there. I thought that was normal, though.

I guess I'm the odd one out here because I've always thought of myself having a good sense f direction

I am an Aspie with ADHD, and I can relate absolutely to everything you describe. EVERYTHING. Here is what I wrote about it last year before I was diagnosed:
http://tania.co.za/collective/blog.nsf/ ... rientation

I'm definitely not ADHD but I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

Same here, cannot even tell left from right w/o thinking about it (use landmarks to know where to go instead) .

I'm the opposite - I have incredible sense of direction. My mom is horrible at direction, and she always takes me with her since I'm her "human GPS".

If it makes you feel better, I can't tell left from right without making the "L" shape with the fingers of my left hand.

I can't seem to walk in a straight line either without intense focus - it's very frustrating for people who go walking with me when I keep bumping into them then veering off the path.

Diagnosed ADHD.

I'm fine with direction if someone says to turn right or left on a street, but if someone says to go north or east on a regular street, I have problems. I can only use a folding map, since I hate having to switch from one page on a Thomas guide map book to another page several pages away.